The Music Fix — News: Bloc Party warmed-up for their headline appearance at the Splendour In The Grass festival in Australia tonight (24th July) by playing a secret gig in a 400 capacity Byron Bay pub on Australia's Gold Coast. Billed as The Silent Alarms the band s... more info

NME — Kele Okereke and co perform as The Silent Alarms more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Today on ITV2 from 8:00pm to 9:00pm (UK ONLY)iTunes 2009: OasisITV2 Join Fearne Cotton and Dave Berry at Camden's legendary Roundhouse for more amazing performances and exclusive interviews from the 2009 iTunes Festival. Today we have music from Oasi... more info

JamBase — Hungary's Sziget Will Return August 12-17 with Musical Acts From Around The World The Prodigy One of the largest music gatherings in Europe - the Sziget Festival (pronounced see'-get) is poised to return to Budapest, Hungary from August 12-17. ... more info

NME — Plus Kele Okereke reveals his band will be taking a live break more info

I Like Music — Embark on their biggest UK tour to date; the month long Bloctober tour. October 2009 more info

The Music Fix — News: Bloc Party release a brand new single One More Chance on the 10th August 2009 through Wichita Recordings. The previously unreleased track was recorded in April with Jacknife Lee (REM) and mixed in Paris with Phillipe Zdar (Phoenix,Cassius). W... more info

Abeano — I’ve never been the world’s biggest Florence fan, subsequently I’ve never posted about her on this blog before. Perhaps unfairly, because this is based almost entirely on whenever she came to party at PUSH (R.I.P.) she would ann... more info

Scotsman.com — Do we really need Foals when we have Bloc Party? Despite the springy hit Cassius, much of this set seemed to steal from the Bloc Party school of celtic-tinged rock for an indi more info

Battery In your Leg — Catchy piano, I’ll give them that. Yet, I can’t help but feel they’re capable of so much more than this. I hate to keep hitting them over the head with Silent Alarm, but where did *that* band go? I’d like to hear another album by them. more info